Agents that watch cause lists, draft engagement letters, chase WIP, review contract redlines, and file status updates to clients. Every action is drafted by AI and approved by a lawyer. Built on the same RAG stack we ship with VakeelSaathi.
Every partner we speak with tells the same story. Juniors spend the first four hours of the day on cause list checks, diary updates, chasing signatures on engagement letters, and typing status emails to anxious clients. The billable work starts after lunch. WIP leaks because nobody has time to draft the invoice narrative. Hearings get missed because a High Court cause list updated at 11pm and nobody checked.
Agents fix this differently from chatbots. A chatbot answers when asked. An agent watches, decides, drafts, and puts the draft in front of a human. The lawyer approves or edits and hits send. The repetitive middle disappears.
For most Tier 1 and Tier 2 firms we speak with, the numbers land in the same place. Roughly 30 percent of associate hours go to research and drafting that a modern agent can accelerate. Another 20 percent goes to matter administration, diary work, WIP chasing, and client status updates that an agent can outright own with a lawyer approving the outputs. That is half of a junior's week returned to substantive practice, without hiring another associate.
VakeelSaathi is our own legal RAG platform serving practising advocates every day. ecourt is our case management system with court diary integration. When we deploy agents for your firm, the retrieval, citation, and eCourts plumbing is already battle-tested. We are not learning legal tech on your budget.
Read the VakeelSaathi engineering deep-diveNo rip-and-replace. Agents live on top of your existing LMS, calendars, and research platforms.
A typical build integrates with a mix of Indian and global systems. Case data comes from eCourts and your LMS. Research runs through Manupatra, SCC Online, and Indian Kanoon. Calendars, documents, and email sit in MS 365 or Google Workspace. Client communication goes through WhatsApp Business or your existing helpdesk. Billing lives in Tally or your practice-management module. The agent orchestration binds these together and keeps a full audit trail of every read, decision, and drafted output.
We treat integration as first-class work, not glue code. That is why our builds hold up in production. Where a vendor API exists we use it. Where it does not, we build hardened scrapers with change detection, retry logic, and alerts on schema drift. If eCourts changes a page layout, the agent notices before the associate does and we ship a fix inside the managed operations retainer.
Most firms start with one agent, prove ROI in a quarter, then add the next.
Client fills a WhatsApp or web form. Agent collects the facts, prompts for supporting documents, runs a conflict check across your matter database, and drafts the engagement letter for partner review.
80% intake self-serveWatches eCourts, High Court cause lists, and LiveLaw daily. Detects rescheduled hearings, next-date orders, and new listings. Alerts the responsible lawyer and syncs to team calendars automatically.
Zero missed hearing SLAReads MSAs, NDAs, shareholder agreements. Flags deviations from the firm's standard playbook. Drafts redlines with a rationale grounded in prior firm precedents.
3-5x faster first-pass reviewGiven a query, pulls precedents from Manupatra, SCC, and Indian Kanoon. Distinguishes binding from persuasive. Drafts a research memo with paragraph-level citations for the associate to verify.
60-80% research time savedReads the lawyer's calendar and email, drafts daily time entries with matter narratives, and chases open WIP weekly. Partner reviews and posts. WIP leakage drops sharply.
15-25% WIP recoveryDrafts weekly or event-triggered status emails to clients using data from ecourt and your LMS. Partner reads, edits, sends. Clients stop calling for updates because they already have them.
70% drop in status-check callsFor corporate clients, tracks board meeting dates, ROC filings, GST and TDS deadlines, and secretarial obligations. Sends reminders to the client and your compliance team.
Turns compliance into a recurring service lineWatches every executed contract in your CLM for renewal windows, notice periods, obligation triggers, and change-of-control clauses. Alerts the relationship partner well before the deadline.
No more surprise auto-renewals15-minute call. You tell us your practice mix, LMS, and biggest operational leak. We come back with a working pilot scope and a fixed price within 48 hours.
Book Free 15-min CallLangGraph for stateful multi-step agents where the flow matters. CrewAI for role-based multi-agent tasks. Both give us the human-in-the-loop primitives that legal work demands.
Claude Sonnet for reasoning and drafting. GPT-4 class as fallback. Self-hosted Llama 3 or Mistral for firms with strict data policies. Model choice is per-agent, not global.
VakeelSaathi's RAG layer with 50,000+ indexed judgments plus your firm's precedents. eCourts scrapers with change detection. ecourt case management APIs for matter data.
VakeelSaathi is Decipher's own legal AI platform. It runs research, drafting, and court diary workflows for practising advocates across India. Every agent pattern on this page has been production tested there before we bring it to a client firm.
Defensible numbers from live use. Research agents cut standard research time by 60 to 80 percent. Document review throughput lifts 3 to 5x on first pass. The court diary agent has held a zero missed hearing SLA since deployment. We report the misses too. Nothing is hidden behind marketing.
See VakeelSaathi in actionAgents never auto-file, auto-send, or auto-commit. Every outbound email, filing, engagement letter, or client message sits in a queue for a lawyer to approve, edit, or reject. The agent handles the drafting. The professional judgment stays with the professional.
Research outputs cite specific paragraphs of specific judgments. Every citation resolves to a link an associate can verify in one click. Confidence thresholds trigger an explicit 'insufficient basis' response instead of a plausible guess. No made-up case names.
Public-facing agents reviewed against Bar Council of India Rule 36 and the Standards of Professional Conduct. Data workflows built to DPDP Act obligations with purpose limits, retention windows, and Indian data residency by default.
We map your practice mix, current LMS, workflow leaks, and data sensitivity. Written feasibility doc with a recommended first agent.
One agent, one workflow, live in production. Usually the court diary agent or intake agent. Partners see it working on real matters.
3 to 5 agents wired into your LMS, calendars, eCourts, and research platforms. SSO, audit logs, DPDP-compliant deployment, partner dashboard.
eCourts scraper upkeep, model API costs, weekly evals, prompt tuning, security patching, human-in-the-loop reviews.
Solo advocates and boutique firms who do not need a custom build can start on VakeelSaathi's per-lawyer SaaS tier. Same core capability, shared infrastructure, no upfront project cost.
See VakeelSaathi SaaS pricingBook a 15-minute call. Tell us your practice mix and biggest operational leak. We come back with a working pilot scope and a fixed price within 48 hours.